Lot 1879

Description

Italy, Bruttium, Croton (Kroton), (420-390 B.C.), silver stater or didrachm (7.73 grams), obv. eagle standing to left, on olive-branch, head raised and flapping its wings, rev. tripod-lebes with kneck and three handles, KPO to left, in field to right heron over **D*, (S.472, SNG ANS 366/369 same dies). Distinctive obverse and reverse die cracks, fine and rare.

It should be noted that it was with this issue that the transition took place with the K in the city name replacing the archaic letter Q (Koppa).